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Privy 5 Shanghai Calvin Chin

Privy 5 Shanghai Calvin Chin

Calvin Chin is the co-founder and CEO of Qifang.cn, a for-profit venture in China focused on sourcing educational loans for Chinese students as to provide more affordable education in China for students. As a Chinese-American entrepreneur living in Shanghai, Calvin Chin knows a thing or two about the best restaurants in the city. Read on for Calvin Chin's Privy 5 picks.

Privy 5 Shanghai Calvin Chin
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  • Jesse
    Jesse
    Categories: Restaurants

    Neighborhood: Xuhui

    Cuisine: Chinese Beijing/Roast Duck, Chinese Shanghainese

    41 Tianping Lu Shanghai Xuhui District 200030
    +86 21 6282 9260
    Jesse is a Shanghai chic and sleek restaurant that serves delicious local fare. Their most popular dish is the red dates stuffed with glutinous rice. Most everyone will tell you that the best type of this dish they've ever had is housed at Jesse. You can supplement this dish with other featured dishes such as the marinated crab and their soy sauce stewed pork and yet you'll still be craving more r ... read more >
  • Gokohai Shabu Shabu
    Gokohai Shabu Shabu
    Categories: Restaurants

    Neighborhood: French Concession

    Cuisine: Chinese Hot Pot, Japanese

    1720 Huaihai Lu near Wuxing Lu Shanghai
    +86 21 6471 7657
    Gokohai Shabu Shabu in Shanghai is an all-you-can-eat Japanese hot pot restaurant that allows diners to feast on piles of deliciously succulent beef, plates of fresh vegetables and even sashimi and cheap Asahi drafts. For a good time with fresh and appetizing food, Gokohai Shabu Shabu should not be missed.
  • Yang's Fry Dumpling
    Yang's Fry Dumpling
    Categories: Restaurants

    Neighborhood: Jing An

    Cuisine: Chinese Dumplings

    54-60 Wujiang Rd Nanjing Xi Lu Shanghai
    This is a street vendor that has a global reputation. There are several locations where outlets operate. The vendor specialties are sage enhanced shengjian or fried soup dumplings. An idea is to pierce the dough to suck out the soup. That’s your appetizer. You can then use sweet vinegar as a dipper and enjoy the main course of filling and dough. Dumplings are traditionally served with ginger infus ... read more >
  • Jia Jia Tang Bao
    Jia Jia Tang Bao
    Categories: Restaurants

    Neighborhood: People's Square

    Cuisine: Chinese Shanghainese

    90 Huanghe Lu near Beijing Lu Shanghai
    +86 21 6327 6878
    This dumpling shop in Shanghai gets so much business that its small size can’t handle its popularity. However, standing in line is worth the wait. The cheap and delicious pork dumplings are small but probably the best menu item. Buy plenty of them once you reach the top of the line. It’s not an impulse buy if you’ve waited as long as this. These Xiao long bao are smaller than the large dumplings s ... read more >
  • Tonkatsu Hamachan
    Tonkatsu Hamachan
    Categories: Restaurants

    Neighborhood: Jing An

    Cuisine: Japanese

    176 Jiaozhou Lu near Beijing Lu Shanghai

    Local Language Address: ???176??????

    +86 21 6256 8674
    Tonkatsu Hamachan is a restaurant located right across from Urbn Hotel in Jing An that specializes in, you guessed it, tonkatsu or Japanese style fried pork cutlet. It's an intimate and quaint restaurant that also serves other items on the menu such as hamburger steak, curry, and stir-fried pork slices, but people generally come here for their popular tonkatsu. The pork cutlet comes in two varieti ... read more >
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